Not three days into the new decade and already we have our first international military crisis.
I am speaking, of course, about the killing in Baghdad, via targeted air strike, of Iranian Major General and Quds commander Qasem Soleimani, by US forces early last Friday morning.
News of Soleimani's death created a lot of noise online, with global Twitter trends comparing it to the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914 and decrying the prospective outbreak of World War III.
Twitter, however, isn't known for level-headedness, so what does this really amount to?